Quotes from Grandpa

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it. --Meister Eckhart

I think that there are very few things that we actually "have to do". Even the essentials like eating and drinking, we really only have to do when considered in the context of some goal, like living. It is in the definition of some goal that all obligations and responsibilities come from.

Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose. --Yoda

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore. --Thich Nhat Hanh

Both of these strike me as Buddhist ideals: that by desiring, we open ourselves up to the possibility of let down, failure, sadness, suffering. I see the wisdom in not attaching yourselves to material things, but it is hard to imagine life without desiring because even so many intangibles can be lost! I desire to be loved, and while this desire opens me up to the possibility of sadness, it also opens up the possibility of great joy.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? --T. S. Eliot

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world. --Max Born

I think today we are over-saturated with "facts". We get information, statistics, scientific findings from all directions. But if these things are supposedly objective